THE WORKS

We’re thrilled to welcome the amazing @bend_laser to Lincoln.

Kicking off with a talk

Talk: 5–6pm, Tuesday 7th October - NDH1010, University of Lincoln (open to everyone)

Private View: immediately after at General Practice

Exhibition opening the follow weekend by appointment - just give us a message on Instagram @generalpractice

Ben will be sharing insights at the University before heading over to GP for the opening of his show. Everyone is warmly invited—don’t miss it!

A note from Ben:

The very first record I ever bought was The Works by Queen. I was seven, completely obsessed with “Radio Ga Ga”—especially the clapping bit. I picked it up from Midland Educational in Birmingham City Centre while my dad bought The Riddle by Nik Kershaw.

Fast forward to my teenage years, and I grew a little embarrassed to admit I loved Queen.

Years later, when I began painting again in my late twenties, I realised most of my canvases came from The Works. And just like with Queen, I felt that same twinge of embarrassment. Not anymore.

The Works at General Practice brings together almost all of my paintings made on canvases from The Works, alongside a new painting/sculpture celebrating my love of Queen (mainly Brian May’s guitar and Freddie Mercury’s moustache, if I’m honest) and their iconic album The Works.

SELF SEED

A garden as a studio: September residency at General Practice.

The Garden Seekers Project examines the complexity, symbolism, social history and wonder of formal gardens and forms the focus of Jane Frederick’s practice.

Her research began at Hamilton MAS, the micro art space by the sea in Felixstowe, Suffolk in 2020, when she was based in the Heritage seafront spa gardens.

From there Jane became Essex Gardens Trust artist in residence working with regional garden teams to create an installation in the Robert Adam Rooms at Audley End House, Saffron Walden.

During the September residency, Jane will be delighted to allow the gp eco-system to nourish and shape new work with conversations, critique and public engagement.

Opening night

6-9pm Friday 19th September - all welcome.

Further updates on how you can visit Jane’s work coming soon.

NOTHING [...] FOREVER

3 exhibitions at General Practice, Lincoln

5 June - 6 July 2025

‘Nothing […] Forever’ is a series of three interconnected exhibitions curated by Andrew Bracey at General Practice, Lincoln in June/July. They include a solo exhibition featuring a new wall drawing by Kate Genever, which is then included in a three-person show, also featuring Madara Vimba and Epoh Beech, and a thirty-person group show of East Midlands and international artists. To reflect the use of Genever’s wall drawing as a conceptual and physical connecting point for each exhibition, every title is a different configuration of the words in the title of Kate’s solo exhibition.

Where: General Practice, 25 Clasketgate, Lincoln, LN2 1JJ

Everything is free to all!

Website: https://www.general-practice.net/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/generalpractice/

Contact: for further information please contact Andrew on abracey@lincoln.ac.uk

Please note General Practice is on the top floor and is only accessed by stairs.

NOTHING, IS STILL THE LAST FOREVER

Solo exhibition by Kate Genever

6-15 June

Public view Thursday 5th June 6-9pm

open on Friday/Saturdays 12-4pm and by appointment

Nothing, is Still the Last Forever is the first exhibition featuring a new wall drawing by Kate Genever, created from charcoal made from fallen wood in a forest during her residency with The Wireworks Project at Shining Cliff Woods in 2022. The artist describes the work as an exploration of the impossibility of reducing materials to nothing: “The project saw me create a factory where I processed materials from the woods into something else—charcoal was one part of it. I’m interested in Metempsychosis and the belief that a soul never dies; it just moves into another form.” At General Practice, the work will take its next form as she covers the walls with the charcoal she made, up to the height of her reach.

Kate Genever is an artist who makes sense of the world through drawing, viewing it as a disposition that reveals our connections with materials, nature, and each other. Her approach is one of paying attention, drawing from, with, and together. Genever’s exhibitions include We believe in love not luck, Hull (2024/5), A tentative piece of ourselves we stake at the boundary, Tomar, Portugal (2024), and We have found in the ashes what we lost in the fire, METAL, Peterborough (2024). She led Together we are powerful at the National Centre for Craft and Design (2023)and her ongoing project, "Encyclopedia of Us," began in Hull in 2019. She resides in South Lincolnshire and can be found online at kategenever.comor on Instagram @kategenever.

LAST FOREVER, THE STILL IS NOTHING 

Epoh Beech, Kate Genever, Madara Vimba  

21-28 June 2025

Public view Thursday 19th June 6-9pm

open on Friday/Saturdays 12-4pm and by appointment

Last Forever, the Still is Nothing features a sculpture and performance by Madara Vimba and an animation by Epoh Beech, installed in a visual conversation with Kate Genever’s wall drawing. The exhibition acts like a palimpsest, preserving the ghostly traces of the artists' work in one space by intertwining layers of artistic expression. It aims to prompt multidimensional and multimedia dialogues through these relationships, aspiring to uncover hidden histories and contemporary reflections.

Beech’s work is a unique fusion of myth, memory and imagination. She reaches deep into the unconscious, both her own and that of her audiences, aiming ultimately to stimulate a healing process of synthesis. Vimba’s work was originally created as the unseen foundation for her piece Rooted Patterns (2024, this large-scale foundation supported a series of self-holding fabric sculptures - an essential element later abandoned, its presence fading into ghostliness. Now reintroduced in Last Forever, the Still is Nothing, the sculpture evolves through live performance, questioning what it becomes when the forgotten is brought back into view.   

Epoh Beech works in drawing, hand-drawn animation and latterly wallpaper design. Her award-winning hand-drawn animation The Masque of Blackness – Reimagined (2018) was monumentally projected onto The National Theatre Fly Tower on London’s Southbank in September 2018 as part of The Thames Festival. Epoh lives and works in London and Lincolnshire and exhibits in the UK and Northern Germany. To view her work, please see epohbeech.co.uk or @epohbeech on Instagram

Madara Vimba’s practice explores her Latvian heritage, intertwining threads of folklore, personal narratives, and cultural myths. Embedded within Latvian culture are craft traditions and deep-rooted stories. For her, these traditions are not merely artefacts but vital, tactile connections to her Latvian identity - an identity she feels is gradually deteriorating during her time in the UK. She creates sculptural works she terms as wearable sculptures - pieces that exist both as autonomous objects and as elements activated through performance. These forms speak to transformation, memory, and presence, occupying a space between the body and material, visibility and disappearance.

Exhibition Title: Last Forever, the Still is Nothing 

When:21-28 June 2025, Opening night: Thursday 19th June 6-9pm

Open: Friday/Saturdays 12-4pm and by appointment

Is Forever Still the Last, Nothing

An exhibition of drawing and printmaking.

5-6th July 2025

Public view Friday 4th July 6-9pm

open on Saturday/Sunday 12-4pm

Is Forever Still the Last, Nothing is an exhibition of drawings and prints by 30 artists. Kate Genever’s charcoal wall drawing serves as a curatorial prompt and backdrop for the work of the other artists, all of whom are united by a focus on the primacy of mark-making through drawing and print. Each artist brings a unique approach to their craft and subject matter, and when viewed together against Genever’s drawing, they reveal the remarkable, shifting nature of artistic mark-making. This exhibition embodies the principle of Metempsychosis, a concept that inspired Genever as she created her charcoal drawing. Here, the essence of artistic expression transmigrates through various forms and mediums, reflecting the continuous evolution and rebirth of creative ideas. Just as souls move from one body to another, the artists' marks transcend individual styles, creating a collective narrative that is ever-changing and eternal.

Artists: Catherine Bertola, Andrew Bick, Pavel Büchler, Jake And Dinos Chapman, Jayne Cooper, Matthew Collings, Emily Collyer, Emily Connor, Kate Genever, Lesley Halliwell, Richard Hamilton, Medina Hammad, Holy Hendry, Jantze Holmes, Sigrid Holmwood, Dean Kenning, Jutta Koether, David  Mabb, Paul Mccarthy, Juliet Moore, Daksha Patel, Melody Phelan-Clark, Robert Rauschenberg, Benjamin Rostance, Assunta Ruocco, Jamie Shovlin, Bob and Roberta Smith, Harald Smykla, Tomoko Takahashi, Sarah Tutt, Dale Wells

Exhibition Title: Is Forever Still the Last, Nothing

When:5-6th July 2025, Opening night: Friday 4th July 6-9pm

Open: Saturday/Sunday 12-4pm